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Fire, Hops and Beer Wagons: The Beer History of Milwaukee

Milwaukee has a reputation as America's "Brew City." But of all the Midwestern cities packed with farm-adjacent German immigrant families, why did Milwaukee thrive as America's brewery for so many years? Historian Ben Barbera lays out the economic forces and acts of God that built the houses of Miller, Pabst and Schlitz.

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